English sample Stage 5 scope and sequence
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Memories
It is through our personal memories that we create a sense of the self and it is in shared memories that we
learn about the world around us. Students develop an understanding of the ways memory is interpreted in texts
and further extend their understanding of the ways language and form shape meaning and influence the ways
readers respond.
Suggested texts: The Happiest Refugee; Touching the Void; Samuel Pepys Diary
Types of texts: nonfiction; print, media, multimedia and digital texts
Focus outcomes: EN5-1A, EN5-3B, EN5-6C, EN5-7D, EN5-8D, EN5-9E
Focus Life Skills outcomes: ENLS-3A, ENLS-4A, ENLS-8A, ENLS-10B, ENLS-12C, ENLS-13C, ENLS-15D,
ENLS-16D, ENLS-17E
Term 2
Week 1
Term 3
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Focus outcomes: EN5-2A, EN5-3B, EN5-5C, EN5-7D, EN5-8D, EN5-9E
Focus Life Skills outcomes: ENLS-5A, ENLS-6A, ENLS-7A, ENLS-9A,
ENLS-10B, ENLS-13C, ENLS-14D, ENLS-15D, ENLS-16D, ENLS-17E
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Conflict – Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
In this unit students explore the nature of conflict and how it is represented in a range of texts. In the world of Romeo and Juliet, conflict
is everywhere: on the streets, in the family, between families. Using Romeo and Juliet as a starting point, this is an exploration of conflict:
conflict in war, conflict in the mind, and conflict within society. Other suggested texts include Private Peaceful and the Thomas Hardy
poem titled The Man He Killed.
Types of texts: drama, poetry, nonfiction; print, media, multimedia and digital texts
Poetry platter: form and technique in poetry
This unit focuses on form and technique in poetry.
Possible texts include: Latitude: Exploring and Creating
Poetry; The Puncher and Wattmann Anthology of
Australian Poetry
Types of texts: poetry; print texts
Focus outcomes: EN5-1A, EN5-4B, EN5-6C, EN5-7D, EN5-9E
Focus Life Skills outcomes: ENLS-1A, ENLS-4A, ENLS-11B, ENLS-12C, ENLS-13C, ENLS-14D, ENLS-17E
Focus outcomes: EN5-1A, EN5-3B, EN5-6C, EN5-7D,
EN5-9E
Focus Life Skills outcomes: ENLS-1A, ENLS-8A,
ENLS-10B, ENLS-12C, ENLS-15D
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Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Novel study
Close study of a novel.
Suggested texts include: To Kill a Mockingbird; All I Ever Wanted; Blue Noise; Chenxi and the
Foreigner
Types of texts: fiction; print texts
Mass media madness
Students examine the role of the mass media in our lives. They explore how issues develop
and how language and the conventions of multimodal texts can be used to persuade audiences.
Types of texts: nonfiction; spoken, media, multimedia and digital texts
Focus outcomes: EN5-1A, EN5-3B, EN5-5C, EN5-7D, EN5-9E
Focus Life Skills outcomes: ENLS-2A, ENLS-3A, ENLS-10B, ENLS-12C, ENLS-13C,
ENLS-15D, ENLS-17E
Focus outcomes: EN5-2A, EN5-3B, EN5-5C, EN5-7D, EN5-8D, EN5-9E
Focus Life Skills outcomes: ENLS-5A, ENLS-6A, ENLS-7A, ENLS-9A, ENLS-10B, ENLS-13C,
ENLS-14D, ENLS-15D, ENLS-16D, ENLS-17E
Week 1
Term 4
Week 2
Week 7
Film study – Bran Nue Dae (PG)
The film Bran Nue Dae is the focus of this unit to show the ways music
and humour have been used to challenge stereotyping. Other techniques
can be explored using texts such as Deadly, Unna?; Listening to Country;
Melbourne Museum; and Spirit Song: A Collection of Aboriginal Poetry.
Types of texts: film, fiction, nonfiction; media, multimedia and digital texts
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Genre study: mystery
Students develop their understanding of the ways narrative conventions create suspense.
Suggested texts include: Mice; Tomorrow, When the War Began; The House That Was Eureka; Picnic at Hanging
Rock; Goat on a Cow
Types of texts: fiction, film; print texts
Visual literacy: The Rabbits
Students explore the use of allegory and satire in picture books using
The Rabbits as the focus text. The unit could be extended to include
a study of Animal Farm in either print or film form.
Types of texts: fiction, visual, print, media, multimedia and digital texts
Focus outcomes: EN5-1A, EN5-3B, EN5-6C, EN5-7D, EN5-9E
Focus Life Skills outcomes: ENLS-3A, ENLS-4A, ENLS-10B, ENLS-12C, ENLS-13C, ENLS-15D, ENLS-17E
Focus outcomes: EN5-2A, EN5-3B, EN5-5C, EN5-7D, EN5-9E
Focus Life Skills outcomes: ENLS-5A, ENLS-6A, ENLS-7A, ENLS-10B,
ENLS-13C, ENLS-14D, ENLS-17E